Bobby Shea set up the first and winning scores, and Klas Dahlbeck managed the clinching goal. Dahlbeck and Adam Clendening also helped on Jeremy Morin’s tally.

The blue-liners helped Rockford score short-handed (Terry Broadhurst), on a power play (Morin), even strength (Brad Winchester’s game-winner) and empty net (Dahlbeck).

“We’ve been getting some decent offense from our defensemen,” Rockford head coach Ted Dent said after a 4-2 victory over the San Antonio Rampage. “Klas, Clendo (Clendening), Shea. ...”

Broadhurst’s stick-handling led to the short-hander that opened the scoring.

“It was nice to see,” Dent said about the variety of scores. “We used some different penalty killers. Broadhurst and (Kyle) Beach got a chance on the first penalty kill and they scored. It’s good for them and hopefully they can build on that.”

There was a lot Dent liked -- other than the fact San Antonio (7-8-0-1) wiped out Rockford’s two-goal edge.

“I liked our effort tonight,” he said. “There are some areas to clean up, for sure. But we played a hard third period.”

The game was tied then. Winchester deflected Shea’s shot from on top at 6:19 for a 3-2 lead. Both teams skated back and forth with few stoppages after that. Dahlbeck’s empty-netter at 19:23 sent a BMO Harris Bank Center crowd of 4,394 home happy.

“Without the forwards, it doesn’t happen,” Shea said of the defensemen’s strong offensive statistics. “Terry Broadhurst made a great move on that first one. Gosh, a great move.”

For only the fifth time in 18 games this season, Rockford (9-8-1-0) scored first. And second.

San Antonio’s leading scorer, Vincent Trocheck, then got the Rampage even with tallies near the end of the first (18:23) and the start of the second (0:42).

“It (stinks),” was what Shea said he was thinking when the Rampage tied it. “But you’ve got to keep going – it still was a tie game. “We started out 0-0, then 2-2, so it’s like 0-0 again. The next goal is huge, and we got it. We worked hard to get it.”

Notes: Defenseman Dylan Olsen made his Rampage debut against his former ’Hogs mates Saturday. Olsen was traded to Florida along with Jimmy Hayes on Thursday. … Ex-’Hog Greg Rollo is the Rampage’s captain. … Saturday’s game concluded the two-game season series between the two teams. Rockford also is finished with Texas. … ’Hogs winger Brad Winchester played in his 250th AHL game.